NEW YORK CITY SOCCER INITIATIVE COMPLETES 50 BLUE PITCHES IN FIVE YEARS | City in the Community

Today, the New York City Soccer Initiative (NYCSI) partners-including the First Lady of New York City Chirlane McCray and First Team coaches and players from New York City Football Club (NYCFC)-celebrated the completion of the five-year initiative with the unveiling of a final mini-pitch at P.S. 184 Shuang Wen in Chinatown, Manhattan.
The new mini-pitch is one of 13 that was installed this calendar year, marking the completion of 50 mini-pitches installed across all five boroughs in just five years-even amid the many challenges throughout COVID. In addition to the new play spaces, NYCSI is enabling more than 10,000 New York City youth to have free access to soccer programming in underserved communities-including the U.S. Soccer Foundation’s Soccer for Success program run by the Department of Youth & Community Development (DYCD) and NYCFC’s City in the Community (CITC) Foundation soccer programming.
Launched in 2016, NYCSI is a first-of-its-kind $3 million public-private partnership between the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, NYCFC, the U.S. Soccer Foundation, adidas, and Etihad Airways to create and maintain 50 mini-pitches across the City and expand free soccer programming to the next generation of New Yorkers. The initiative helped spur other cities- including Chicago and Newark-to launch their own initiatives to create mini-pitches and expand access to free, high-quality programs.
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[@usk7388]

This is my club💙 Thank you CITC!!

[@caioviniciusmoraes6675]

Guys, this is awesome!!! Congrats! And congrats for the video too

[@robertnegron9706]

Great for the kids the parents and the future of the city.

[@diegov19781]

They built a field in my neighborhood, its so cool

[@robertnegron9706]

It’s great to see.

[@steez1921]

Shoulda made it grwss

[@robertnegron9706]

Call it FOOTBALL.